Microsoft buys Skype
Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5 billion. The Internet telephony provider is set to become a new business unit within the Microsoft Group.
Microsoft wants to use Skype to upgrade its smartphone operating system Windows Phone, the game console Xbox and the e-mail program Outlook. The current head of Skype, Tony Bates, will be the head of a new Microsoft division reporting directly to Ballmer. The purchase has already been announced in various media and has now been commented on by the company itself in a press release. According to Kress.de, Steve Ballmer now wants to jointly realize the future of real-time entertainment.
